I live in a 3 bedroom, 1985 single-wide trailer. I have a 15,000 (?) BTU window A/C in the living room and a smaller 5,000 BTU window A/C in the master bedroom. If I try to have them on at the same time it flips a breaker that seems to control the wall that the A/C is on in the living room and everything in my bedroom.
Do I need to just move the window A/C across the living room to another wall or is there a way I can keep it where it is and not have the breaker flip when I want to have both A/Cs on. They both use standard plugs. I'm guessing that's a 110 plug?
By Jorja C.
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From your description, it seems to me that both of these units are on the same breaker. A simple fix will be to run an extension cord from some other plug in to one of the AC units. (I'd suggest the one in the living room, as there should be more available plug ins that are on different breakers.) Then they will be running on different breakers, and you should be able to have them both on at the same time.
Check your circuit box. You may not have enough amps being routed into your home. Actually, this is a job for a professional and the cost of installing a bigger box on a single-wide is hideous (ask me how I know this:).
Best thing to do is understand that running the window unit at the same time as just about anything else on that circuit is going to trip the breaker because that circuit can only safely run a certain amount of amps-watts at a time. Even something as small as a table lamp on the same circuit as your AC unit is going to cause a 'fail'.
Learn how to 'map your circuits' and read the wattage requirements on a power cord at this site:
homerepair.about.com/
construction.about.com/
www.netplaces.com/
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